COUNTRY LIFE: Benchmark ends 2022 falling 51 cents from November

By Lee Mielke The Agriculture Department announced the last Federal order Class III benchmark milk price of 2022 at $20.50 per hundredweight, down 51 cents from November but $2.14 above December 2021. It is the highest December Class III price since 2007, though that doesn’t mean much in view of the rising prices to operate and…